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Yeah, finally I commited KWarBots on playground/games on KDE SVN! (trully merged my internal git repository onto). It still not playable; it’s on heavy development, but now you can follow how things are going on the project…

This is the first view of my new game: KWarBots. What’s KWarBots? It’s a game where you can program a robot using Python Programming Language. The main goal of this game is for your fun, but for you education too, introducing the basics about some programming language. Initially, for the language, I would use the Turtle Scripting Language, but I saw that it was not a good idea… So, using Kross, I can run a script written on Python to control the robot.Oh, yes, the game uses KDE4 and QT4 as your base… You can now watch a simple movie showing the basic moving system programmed via a python script; prefer to watch in HQ mode to read the commands on the video.

Now I’m working on a Map class and a Image handling class to load maps and images from files… Soon you’ll can view more images/videos about the game, and with better graphics, of course…

And finally, as it was to be my GSoC 2009 proposal, you can read the original paper about the game, downloading it here.

Yeah, I know, I promised that it would release only when reached the version 1.0, but a lot of people sent me mail about the bot, and I had a lot of visits on the project page from people searching for an IRC translation bot.

And you can get it now here! Download!!! Read the README file to know how to put transbot working. And after transbot join the channel that you want it to work, type !help to get a list of supported commands of the bot.

Remember: it’s open source and still on development, i.e., there are a lot of things to do on it yet. Enjoy!

Yeah, more one new poject, now using Python Programming Language. The main goal of this project is: create a translation IRC bot, that translates some English text (or the text of some user that are on the same channel).

I had the idea to made it in a funny chat on #embassyofpiracy, on irc.anonnet.org. The original idea was: A bot that can translate the last (or the N latest) message(s) from some user on the channel. There are a lot of people from all around the world, but the main language used on the channel is English. And as we want to have more and more people on the channel, some guys doesn’t understand English very well.. So…”what about a translation bot”?

And here we are. The transbot is already on version 0.1, with these functions (the character ! with some text means that it is a command):

!translate LANG_CODE TEXT: do the translation of the English text TEXT to the language associated with LANG_CODE.

The bot will be released on GPL, but only at version 1.0. Until there, I’ll put here some code snipplets, to all interested on create your own IRC bot, or to anyone that wants to learn something about Python. Also I’ll write about transbot‘s features…

Finishing, a simple TODO list that I must to develop for the next versions:

– Generate some data structure to handle all the users of the channel, saving the last (and soon, the N latest) message of them;

– Create a function to auto translate from all languages, not only from English;